What's AT&T doing to stop me from using my internet? I get speed within range they sell me (I get 5mbps in the 3-6mbps, just as stated) and BitTorrent works just fine.
Monitoring is an entirely different issue, if that's what you meant.
Too bad cable isn't broadcast? You are right, they have to have a license, but they only recieve RF, they don't transmit it (to their customers, at least)
Are you referring to AT&T blocking outgoing port 25 connections? If you file a ticket on the support website there's an option to have that removed. I did it as soon as they instated it.
iTunes credits? How ironically appropriate, if people were trying to steal music (not exactly the case, I know), and instead, they're given DRM'd music in return?
While I don't -only- buy Steam games, I try and buy them there if I can. I don't need media, I don't have to give Walmart, Best Buy, or *shudder* Gamestop their cut, and for Valve games, the money goes exactly where I want it to go: Valve. They also tend to have preloading or first week 10% discounts on a lot of new releases, and they'll have weekend sales a lot (I got Bioshock for $15 a few weeks ago, I probably wouldn't have purchased it otherwise.)
I like having my games accessable from any computer, and if I don't want to download, I can carry around the GCF files, like for playing on school computers. Personally I'd rather have Steam's control rather than hijackable CD keys, or game-breaking 'protection'.
Er, what's this about Half-Life on the Mac? Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no Mac version of Half-Life 1.. and even if there was, HL1 supports software, OpenGL and DirectX rendering paths.
It was @Home, that was a pain because at the time I didn't have a router capable of setting the client name itself, so I had to hook it in directly to one PC.
You'd think so, but guess what? That'd only work with closed source wifi chipsets. Most hardware ethernet devices have open source Linux drivers, which could be ported back to Windows if such a thing happened. Also, removing the ability to do that would only apply in the US, so you might only have to get the drivers from another part of the world that doesn't have this useless new law.
Ugh, that just reminds me of Verizon's in-movie 'advertising' during Ironman. Tony uses a current model VZW phone to as a video phone, blatantly showing the Verizon logo, despite A. the camera on that model being on the back and B. Verizon doesn't have video conferencing. Best of all, I don't believe there's any CDMA coverage in that part of the world.
You can turn the Steam News notices off in the options, cough cough. The 'ads' when you're downloading are a feature of the server -giving- you bandwidth (aka, for free) and it's just a whole one picture that you don't have to click and doesn't do popunders or anything. And most of the time it's a Valve server anyway.
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What's AT&T doing to stop me from using my internet? I get speed within range they sell me (I get 5mbps in the 3-6mbps, just as stated) and BitTorrent works just fine.
Monitoring is an entirely different issue, if that's what you meant.
Too bad cable isn't broadcast? You are right, they have to have a license, but they only recieve RF, they don't transmit it (to their customers, at least)
If you want mental images involving "McCloud", go read the VGCats comic "Crime to humanity". (Can't link, at work)
Are you referring to AT&T blocking outgoing port 25 connections? If you file a ticket on the support website there's an option to have that removed. I did it as soon as they instated it.
Unfortunately, some of the time it's just a copy of another story on Slashdot.
iTunes credits? How ironically appropriate, if people were trying to steal music (not exactly the case, I know), and instead, they're given DRM'd music in return?
Reading comments higher up, I remembered the same thing, but I can't find where I read it, earlier.
While I don't -only- buy Steam games, I try and buy them there if I can. I don't need media, I don't have to give Walmart, Best Buy, or *shudder* Gamestop their cut, and for Valve games, the money goes exactly where I want it to go: Valve. They also tend to have preloading or first week 10% discounts on a lot of new releases, and they'll have weekend sales a lot (I got Bioshock for $15 a few weeks ago, I probably wouldn't have purchased it otherwise.) I like having my games accessable from any computer, and if I don't want to download, I can carry around the GCF files, like for playing on school computers. Personally I'd rather have Steam's control rather than hijackable CD keys, or game-breaking 'protection'.
How is Bioshock's DRM Valve's fault?
Er, what's this about Half-Life on the Mac? Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no Mac version of Half-Life 1.. and even if there was, HL1 supports software, OpenGL and DirectX rendering paths.
It was @Home, that was a pain because at the time I didn't have a router capable of setting the client name itself, so I had to hook it in directly to one PC.
and least importantly, can't be synced to an iPod.
Fixed that for you.
You'd think so, but guess what? That'd only work with closed source wifi chipsets. Most hardware ethernet devices have open source Linux drivers, which could be ported back to Windows if such a thing happened. Also, removing the ability to do that would only apply in the US, so you might only have to get the drivers from another part of the world that doesn't have this useless new law.
Maybe I don't understand entirely how it works, but shouldn't -your- insurance pay for it, in that case?
Crysis demo for render time, or rending a specific image for FPS
Fixed that for you.
Ugh, that just reminds me of Verizon's in-movie 'advertising' during Ironman. Tony uses a current model VZW phone to as a video phone, blatantly showing the Verizon logo, despite A. the camera on that model being on the back and B. Verizon doesn't have video conferencing. Best of all, I don't believe there's any CDMA coverage in that part of the world.
Too bad Google's facility is named the Googleplex.
Can your flash drive transfer anywhere in the gigabit per second range?
So, it's hot!
I want to know where you people buy your computer parts if it costs you that much to build a decent computer. Best Buy? Dell?
But isn't managed better than unmanaged? *buh dun bsch*
Err, you mean like Managed C++?
That's odd, files seem to share faster over SMB2 in Vista than SMB1 to SMB1 or SMB1 to/from SMB2, at least with all my computers.
Here's an easy way to circumvent the copy protection: Get the Windows version running on Wine.
You can turn the Steam News notices off in the options, cough cough. The 'ads' when you're downloading are a feature of the server -giving- you bandwidth (aka, for free) and it's just a whole one picture that you don't have to click and doesn't do popunders or anything. And most of the time it's a Valve server anyway.